Eugene Rodney was best known as producer of the television program, Father Knows Best. The bulk of the collection includes scripts and production information for the radio and television series Father Knows Best, and the short lived television series Window on Main Street, all featuring Robert Young.

Eugene B. Rodney was originally a publicist for East Coast theater owners and stage producers. He moved west when a theater chain he was managing was sold. In Hollywood he became an associate producer at Reliance Pictures and was involved in the filming of The Last of the Mohicans, The Count of Monte Cristo and Red Salute with Robert Young. Rodney went on to become the Vice-President of Production for Robert Young's production company, Cavalier Productions, Inc., and helped conceptualize and then produce the television version of Father Knows Best. Rodney died in November, 1985.

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